Comparing the articles below, discuss the State and State Building Theories
1-Charles Tilly, 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” in Bringing the State Back In ed. by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocopol. Cambridge: CUP: 169-191.
2-Mancur Olson.1993. “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development,” American Political Science Review. 87(3): 567-576.
3-Bates, Robert. 2001. Prosperity and Violence, The Political Economy of Development. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. pp: 30-83. (53pp)
Spruyt, Hendrick. 2002. “The Origins, Development, and Possible 4-4-4-4-Decline of the Modern State,” Annual Review of Political Science 5:127-49
5-Spruyt, Hendrick. 2007. “War, Trade, and State Formation.” In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, edited by Charles Boix and Susan C. Stokes, 211-36. New York: Oxford University Press. (25pp)
